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Haiti has been called “The Republic of NGOs,” but this understates the case. More broadly, many social functions normally carried out by an elected government are controlled and executed by forces other than the Government of Haiti. This domination by external institutions, resulting from, but more fundamentally causing, the weak and impoverished state of the Government of Haiti, come in great variety: Variety of origin (religious, aid, financial, and political organizations) and of sector (medical, educational, entrepreneurial, advisory).

Panel Name

Control by the Core

Moderator

Marlene Daut
Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies
Department of African American Studies, Yale University

Speakers

Brian Concannon
Executive Director
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

Jake Johnston
Senior Research Associate
Center for Economic and Policy Research

Alex Dupuy
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University